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From: Adam Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Depot Development [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 6:26 AM
Subject: Depot
Folks
Sorry I've been offline a while, I've had other priorities to take care
of.
I will be sad to let Depot go, but I suspect it is time. I am starting to
believe that without a lot more community drive (or just outright
individual
stubbornness to continue) that something like a version/repository idea is
too much to pull off. Further, I suspect that Javasoft ought be handling
it,
not other groups. Also, I do suspect we tried to do too much (and yes, I
probably was over enthusiastic and helped over engineer some parts) so
couldn't keep up with it. That, and (for me) the transition into
incubation
caused too much environment awkwardness, and I lost momentum.
Whatever the case, long and the short is that we didn't seem to build on a
simple use case, we didn't use it first and code it second. Basically it
stagnated underneath us. I don't think I'll ever quite understand why, but
despite technical merits (IMHO) something just didn't spark others. Maybe
marketing, maybe star alignment, definitely community.
That all said, I really really struggle with this. So much effort, so much
good stuff, so close. Gak! I hate letting go.
regards,
Adam
